Tracker / CVE-2026-64185
CVE-2026-64185
Medium 5.5
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sysfs: don't remove existing directory on update failure When sysfs_update_group() is called for a named group and create_files() fails (e.g. -ENOMEM), internal_create_group() calls kernfs_remove(kn) on the group directory. In the update path, kn was obtained via kernfs_find_and_get() and refers to a directory that already existed before this call. Removing it silently destroys a sysfs group that the caller did not create. Only remove the directory if we created it ourselves. On update failure the directory remains as it is left empty by remove_files() inside create_files(), but can be repopulated by a retry.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · 4.19 → 5.10.258 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.209 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.175 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.18.34 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.19 → 7.0.11 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.142 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.92 |
Analysis
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